PDF files can be encrypted using command line tools QPDF and PDFtk. These are available for Windows and Linux. Using QPDF Description from QPDF: This is the QPDF package. QPDF is a command-line tool and C++ library that performs content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It supports… Read more

Some tips on how to get back some more density with your menus and booksmarks. Edit and set to Create directory and file Some of the usual older methods of changing this no longer works since Firefox 91, including Setting to , then changing Density in Menu, More Tools, Customize Toolbar. Source Read more

Here are some examples on how to configure NGINX to conditionally log requests based on certain conditions like remote IP address, URI etc by using the map module and variables. Conditional logging Create a variable using ngx_http_map_module. This is placed in the HTTP block. Regexes can also be… Read more

Install and create partition Install on a Debian based system Install on a Red Hat based system Creating a new LUKS partition Key management Generate 4096-bit random key file Add a key file to next free key slot. This will prompt for a passphrase. You can have up to 8 slots. Add a key file to… Read more

Tested with Raspberry Pi 3 and 4, but should work on some older models too. For Ethernet connected kiosk machines. Download and install Raspberry Pi OS Download img file and image to micro SD card. Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) with desktop, Image with desktop based on Debian Buster. Warning: This is not… Read more

For GPG versions 2.x only. List keys List public keys List all secret keys List public or secret keys, but show subkey fingerprints as well The key ring location is normally shown on the first line on stdout. Use different key ring List keys but use a different home directory for one command only… Read more

TL;DR Use internet facing domain on an internal network, I normally use subdomains for this. Domain must have a DNS A record pointing to a public facing web server so Let's Encrypt can find it for the HTTP-01 challenge. This can be served as an empty site or just as a 404 response. Remote VPS uses… Read more

TL;DR Protecting a web site with NGINX by using authentication server via a subrequest. Use in NGINX conf. When user requests protected area, NGINX makes an internal request to . If 201 is returned, protected contents are served. Anything else, NGINX responds with 401. is reverse proxied to… Read more

I've been comparing some load speeds from a variety of different web hosting companies. I started out by trying out the free tier of Netlify to compare how the performance is compared with my usual Vultr VPS service. After seeing that the Netlify load times was almost 10x longer than from the VPS… Read more

In this example, we'll show how to convert multiple PNG images to a multi page searchable PDF file. We'll use the following command line tools: ImageMagick for converting PNGs into multi page TIFF and PDF files. Tesseract OCR, an open source OCR engine. PDFtk Free for overlay joining of PDF files… Read more